KARACHI, Pakistan, CMC—West Indies Girls’s captain Hayley Matthews’s player-of-the-match efficiency on Thursday drove the Staff to a 113-run win towards hosts Pakistan Girls within the first ICC Girls’s Championship One-day Worldwide.
The 25-year-old Barbadian all-rounder carried her bat for her fifth ODI hundred, a career-best, undefeated 140 from 150 balls that included 15 fours and one six and powered the Caribbean aspect to 269 for eight after they determined to bat within the 50 overs-a-side match on the Nationwide Stadium.
Matthews then spearheaded the West Indies Girls’s bowling, taking three for 17 from six overs along with her flighty off-spin. The Pakistanis had been bundled out for 136 in 35.5 overs, handing the guests a 1-0 lead within the three-match sequence.
The end result meant that the Caribbean aspect earned two factors within the 10-team ICC Girls’s Championship desk in direction of direct qualification for subsequent yr’s ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup in India.
Matthews’ aspect now has 10 factors from 13 matches, and they’re ninth within the standings. They’ve loads of work to do to develop into one of many 5 groups that straight qualify for the World Cup together with the hosts.
West Indies Girls had been one for one within the third over after wicketkeeper-opener Rashada Williams was caught and bowled by Sadia Iqbal for one, they usually limped to 43 for one on the shut of the primary Energy Play.
However Matthews and her deputy Shemaine Campbelle stepped up the momentum in a second wicket stand of 102, which was the rock upon which the Caribbean aspect constructed their innings – and there was little substance and stability from the remainder of the batting.
Campbell made 45, and all-rounder Chinelle Henry received 23, however not one of the guests’ remaining batters reached 20. Left-arm spinner Sadia Iqbal, who opened the bowling, and leg-spinner Tuba Hassan had been essentially the most profitable bowlers for Pakistan Girls with two wickets apiece.
Henry made the breakthrough for West Indies Girls when she held a return catch to dismiss opener Sidra Ameen for one within the second over, and fellow pacer Shamilia Connell received the skilled Bismah Maroof caught behind for seven within the fifth over.
The Caribbean aspect restricted the Pakistanis to 53 for 2 on the finish of the primary Energy Play. Matthews triggered a droop when she received opposition captain Nida Dar caught behind for 19 and completed off the run out of opener Muneeba Ali for 22.
West Indies Girls continued to chip away on the residence crew’s batting, with leg-spinner Afy Fletcher and left-arm spinner Zaida James taking two wickets apiece. Tuba made 25, and wicketkeeper-batsman Najiha Alvi made 20 in a stand of 37 for the seventh wicket to briefly frustrate the guests.
The second ODI will happen on Sunday on the identical venue, whereas the third ODI will likely be performed two days later.
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